[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50647671]Itanium is the most useless architecture ever made by Intel.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes, Itanium.
The architecture so bad that Silicon Graphics bet their future on it and they are now long out of business.
[img]http://www.systemonline.cz/images_aqua/cad/2005/05_kveten/prism_f230_lft.jpg[/img]
Well at least now we can look back and can see the technology as something great we can build a table out of and not feel bad about.
[img]http://www.geektechnique.org/images/1575.jpg[/img]
I've never quite understood Itanium.
From how I've heard it, Intel announced it and had some spectacular in-house benchmark numbers, so a bunch of big computing companies who were seeing their own RISC platforms near End of Life decided it would be great to transition over to Itanium. Unfortunately the chip was delayed several times and when it finally did hit the market the real performance wasn't close to Intel's alleged benchmarks. Worse yet was that Intel's x86 CISC chips were now outperforming them and the era of the high performance x86 server had arrived and everybody's days were numbered. I seemed to recall Intel was sued a number of times over the ordeal but a lot of bitter people still ended up losing their jobs and a number of big names in the valley closed their doors.
By the way, Happy 25000 posts Brt.
[editline]foam![/editline]
Wingless, your opinion on the ordeal is ignored because you've spent too much tame talking with your Pro-Itanium girlfriend in Colorado who has lectured me on the madness several times, then dumped me.
Did YouTube finally fix their player? For me on any device "Auto" would always default to the worst quality setting. Now it actually defaults to a reasonably high quality setting!
Sprained my ankle over the freedom weekend and didn't even have any 1080 Classified info to cheer me up today :<
I can't decide on a video card without know its specs and price.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;50652698]Did YouTube finally fix their player? For me on any device "Auto" would always default to the worst quality setting. Now it actually defaults to a reasonably high quality setting![/QUOTE]
Your ISP probably just fixed something peering wise.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;50653281]Like last week I went down stairs to do shit to get back and seeing that hey we updated screen. Meanwhile the only option left that I can select for update settings are the work hours one. Which Microsoft doesn't allow to go past 10 hours.
Just give me the option to update when I fucking shutdown unlike the broken version they have now.[/QUOTE]
Turn it off more often than once a month and you won't have any issues. I've had 10 installed since the day it came out and it hasn't once restarted on me to install updates. Everything just gets scheduled for some ungodly hour of the morning when it's off already anyway.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50653543]Turn it off more often than once a month and you won't have any issues. I've had 10 installed since the day it came out and it hasn't once restarted on me to install updates. Everything just gets scheduled for some ungodly hour of the morning when it's off already anyway.[/QUOTE]
I turn off my computer every night and I actually just had it reboot on me for updates (taking two freaking hours nonetheless) while I was in the middle of something because it wouldn't even let me schedule when to restart it.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50653543]Turn it off more often than once a month and you won't have any issues. I've had 10 installed since the day it came out and it hasn't once restarted on me to install updates. Everything just gets scheduled for some ungodly hour of the morning when it's off already anyway.[/QUOTE]
That's what you think, but in reality Windows is waiting for you to leave your computer on overnight doing something important, like video rendering.
Waiting. Watching.
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;50653265][img]http://meanwhile.rocks/sharex/SS_1467764929.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I'm sure Barnacles tweeted this about fifty times so far.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50654015]this is only funny to me, makol and you
but deep down
it makes us furious[/QUOTE]
it annoys me to no end
a while ago I found out he was literally down the street from where I live, and if I had the energy at the time I was going to walk up to him say "no" and walk away with no explanation to express my anger
I mean he seems like a pretty cool dude but man can he run a joke into the ground
JayZTwoCents and him lack "comedic timing" in their vocab. If you just speed up a voice to a high pitch and zoom in, it makes everything better.
Paul is the best and no one can tell me otherwise.
[editline]5th July 2016[/editline]
But Dennis did put a hole in Linus' garage ceiling not too long ago so he gets 10 cool points for that achievement.
[editline]5th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50654058]JayZTwoCents and him lack "comedic timing" in their vocab. If you just speed up a voice to a high pitch and zoom in, it makes everything better.[/QUOTE]
[I]ladies[/I]
:sick:
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50654121]Denis also [sp]man handled yoko[/sp] from gurren lagann body pillow so do we also dock him for points or do we give him points?[/QUOTE]
we do both because it seemed like Dennis really needed that mattress
I suspect one of my HDDs are dying.
What software do I use to check?
[QUOTE=paul simon;50654150]I suspect one of my HDDs are dying.
What software do I use to check?[/QUOTE]
I go to Crystal Disk Mark to check SMART status and WD data diagnostics (windlg) to check sector stability.
Also the physical "is it clicking or grinding" test works too.
[QUOTE=BackSapper;50654159]I go to Crystal Disk Mark to check SMART status and WD data diagnostics (kindly) to check sector stability.
Also the physical "is it clicking or grinding" test works too.[/QUOTE]
Thanks.
Yeah no physical sounds, but absurd drops in transfer speeds and a few corrupted files.
[editline]o[/editline]
Yeah ok a few dead sectors it seems.
A spider was crawling across my desk at work. I work at an ISP, maybe it needed to get onto the web.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/zybPyr8.jpg[/t]
Also spun a web on my computer monitor over the long weekend.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J2qMN2P.jpg[/t]
AIMP3 was ending up with duplicate entries in the library and fucking up play counts as a result. Turns out SQLiteStudio decided that UTF16le wasn't good enough and re-encoded the DB to UTF-8 when I had to fix filepaths (thanks Windows 10) to my new user directory a year ago. Didn't even notice until I tried to update to AIMP4 and had to get the dev to manually upgrade the DB.
Artem too helpful. [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img]
Not even sure how that works, AIMP3 was chugging along fine but the 3->4 upgrade process didn't like it.
[QUOTE=paul simon;50654166]Thanks.
Yeah no physical sounds, but absurd drops in transfer speeds and a few corrupted files.
[editline]o[/editline]
Yeah ok a few dead sectors it seems.[/QUOTE]
See if chkdsk can repair it. If not, you might be on your way to grabbing a new one.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50653828]That's what you think, but in reality Windows is waiting for you to leave your computer on overnight doing something important, like video rendering.
Waiting. Watching.[/QUOTE]
Well it only restarts after updates have been installed and waiting for reboot for 3 days. Sooo...
[QUOTE=BackSapper;50654253]See if chkdsk can repair it. If not, you might be on your way to grabbing a new one.[/QUOTE]
This is very inconvenient because I noticed this just now when some photos from a recent wedding shoot corrupted themselves.
They hadn't been uploaded yet to my cloud backup service, but I'm sure I can recover them from the formatted SD card.
This data is much too important to be lost, so I'll have to buy a new HDD.
[editline]o[/editline]
SD card recovery is working just fine, crisis averted.
[QUOTE=Demache;50654353]Well it only restarts after updates have been installed and waiting for reboot for 3 days. Sooo...[/QUOTE]
I don't leave my computer on overnight unless it's doing something, and on the particular occasion I'm talking about (Windows shutdown to do updates in the middle of a 10 hour 3D print), I can assure you I had turned off my computer no less than 24 hours prior to starting the print.
Not only that, but I was checking the progress of the print roughly hourly. Like I said, it's waiting.... watching.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50654382]I don't leave my computer on overnight unless it's doing something, and on the particular occasion I'm talking about (Windows shutdown to do updates in the middle of a 10 hour 3D print), I can assure you I had turned off my computer no less than 24 hours prior to starting the print.
Not only that, but I was checking the progress of the print roughly hourly. Like I said, it's waiting.... watching.[/QUOTE]
Well treat it better then. I can say that its never happened to me and it does do updates. Every Wednesday when I click shutdown in fact.
[editline]6th July 2016[/editline]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Cnnygtv.png[/img]
[i]gotta go fast[/i]
[QUOTE=benjgvps;50654179]Also spun a web on my computer monitor over the long weekend.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J2qMN2P.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Time to d-d-d-d-drop the bass.
Waaaa wooooww
[QUOTE=Demache;50654523]Well treat it better then. I can say that its never happened to me and it does do updates. Every Wednesday when I click shutdown in fact.[/QUOTE]
Nah fuck that it convinced me to finally stop being lazy and get Arch installed :v:
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50650200]I've never quite understood Itanium.[/QUOTE]
They made an architecture that can execute a bunch of shit in parallel, then looked at real software, saw that it's hard to execute in parallel, and then said "we'll just handle that in the compiler".
VLIW is a dead meme when it comes to general purpose CPUs. But apparently nobody at Intel knew that.
I like to imagine Intel as a dad and he tries so hard to make his son (Itanium) successful but his bastard step-son (x86_64) always ends up outshining him
From what I understand, itanium would/could/should have some real neat uses, but it requires a fundamental restructuring of how code is thought about.
Cool for new systems. Utterly hopeless for a cobol based financial banking system from the late Cretaceous period.
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